H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for read more

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are read more

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even read more

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that read more

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.